Most dominant name in boxing

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  1. Boxerboxer222

    Boxerboxer222 Member Full Member

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    Just a weird thread idea that I had in my mind. Basically which is the goat name in boxing. Like which first name would you consider the most dominant in boxing history. For example the name Jack you've got dempsey(both of them), Johnson, Dillon etc.
     
  2. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Definitely Mike Tyson
     
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  4. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis "The David Haye of Loma's Gay" -Edgar Allan Poe Full Member

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    Mike Tyson
     
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Wlad
     
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    Unless i am going off my rocker i think everyone has misunderstood the thread ask.

    If we go Ray to get the ball rolling we have Ray Robinson, Ray Leonard, Ray Seales, Mercer, Mancini etc

    To go harder we have (Joe) Louis, Frazier, Walcott x 2, Gans, Calzaghe, Maxim, Girdello, Brown, Gamache

    If we expand from the many examples of Tyson in the thread (Mike) we can get McCallum, Weaver, McTigue, and expanding that to "Micheal" we get Moorer, Spinks, Carbajal, Watson, Nunn., etc

    Not many for Wladimir i dare say.

    I'm thinking deep dives into Rocky, Charlie and Max would garner a few good shouts too. I've avoided "Sugar" because a lot of them weren't a legal name at a guess.
     
  7. Eddie Ezzard

    Eddie Ezzard Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Joe looks good after that.
     
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  8. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis "The David Haye of Loma's Gay" -Edgar Allan Poe Full Member

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    Nah you're not off your rocker.

    George is just drunk at his girlfriend's party, probably didn't read it correctly and said Mike Tyson. White Bomber just wants to glaze Tyson so he also said Tyson. I said "**** it why not" and also said Tyson because it'd be funny if all answers here were Tyson, and then Seamus ruined it by saying Wlad.

    Now delete your post and say Mike Tyson :lol:
     
  9. Eddie Ezzard

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    Don has a few mentions. King, Elbaum, Dunphy, Lalonde, Lee, Turner, Jordan. Donny Brook if you go back to Pierce Egan.
     
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  10. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It can’t be Mike Tyson because there were two guys with that name.

    While Iron Mike Tyson had a very good first few years in the ring (until getting beat up by Buster Douglas in his 23-year-old prime), the other guy was winless.

    Iowa Mike Tyson probably got booked a few times by promoters just so they could put his name on the poster and advertise a Mike Tyson fight without committing fraud.

    Iowa Mike went 0-8 with 6 KO losses. Born in Mississippi, fought out of Davenport.

    https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/22474
     
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    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
     
  12. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Seems like there’s a stretch of time where everyone with the last name Sharkey became a boxer.
     
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    If it's first and last then it's probably Joe Gans?
     
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    James (Corbett, Jeffries, Tunney - real name, Braddock, Douglas - all Heavyweight Champions of the World) deserves a mention. And four of the five were James J.
     
  15. Boxerboxer222

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    The name Carlos has some big ones. Monzon, Zarate, Ortiz, Palomino
     
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